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Robert King, 2nd Earl of Kingston — Hugh Douglas Hamilton, R.H.A. (Dublin 1739-1808) · Public domain

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Robert King, 2nd Earl of Kingston

Irish accused murderer and property developer

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Occupation: real estate developer
Position held: Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Ireland
Citizenship: Kingdom of Ireland
Born: 1754
Died: 1799

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Robert King, 2nd Earl of Kingston was an Anglo-Irish peer. He was styled Viscount Kingsborough between 1768 and 1797. He achieved notoriety in 1798 when tried and acquitted by his peers in the Irish House of Lords for murder of his nephew Henry Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald had eloped with his daughter Mary.

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